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You Kill Me

Posted by Driving Blind

Justin Jacobson, while working on his John Rain RPG Tokyo Rain, notes that "one of the titular character's prime abilities is to find or buy a mundane item or series of mundane items and turn it/them into a lethal weapon."

So there's your challenge: look around your immediate environment and figure out what lethal weapons you have on hand.

When you have your answer, report your findings here!

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It’s raining in Tokyo

Posted by Driving Blind

In authors, fred, marketing, rpg publishing, side project, tokyo rain
27Mar 08

So, here's one of the projects I'm peripherally working on right now: Blue Devil Games' Tokyo Rain, a roleplaying game (still in early development) based on the John Rain series of novels by Barry Eisler.

Blue Devil Games is another name for Justin D. Jacobson, and he's got some pretty interesting ideas here. There's not a TON of material on the website yet, but it's worth dropping by to get an early idea of where some of his ideas are pointing.

While I'm on board for the layout stuff, that's usually a fairly late in the process thing -- but the reason it's coming up now is that Justin also has me on board as what I guess I'd call a "brand consultant". This is my first real, deliberate, focused effort to add some value in that way to a project that's not directly under my umbrella, and I'm really pleased that Justin wanted to give me the opportunity to be a part of the project at this stage.

He even says a few somewhat embarrassingly nice things about me on the development log.

I've added a feed for the dev log here: